VoEX’s SuperRegistry Carrier ENUM Database, Peering Infrastructure and IP Trunking Move Voice Carriers Closer to End-to-End IP
VoEX has built a pure VoIP peering infrastructure using its network resources and its SuperRegistry™, an advanced carrier-grade ENUM database that maps telephone numbers to IP destinations. With this, it delivers any-to-any connectivity, from VoIP to PSTN users and vice versa. The SuperRegistry peering solution also supports the development of advanced IP-based applications ’ including enhanced directory, mobility, location and presence services -- that can bridge the voice and data service worlds. As the leader in the peering, registry, and IP/TDM interconnect space, VoEX is in a unique position to lower costs, converge IP and TDM voice traffic, and provide advanced applications to end users.
Carriers and service providers who have registered their network entry points on VoEX’s ENUM-based SuperRegistry gain managed IP access, through VoEX, to each others’ endpoints. They can terminate traffic ’ TDM, IP, and hybrid combinations of both -- for each other at costs below local tandem rates. They can also enjoy the incremental benefit of global VoIP reach while avoiding any capital expenditure and eliminating some PSTN database query charges.
VoEX’s customer base includes wireless and wireline carriers, MSOs, cable operators, VoIP service providers, large enterprises, universities, and e-communities like Yahoo and LinkedIn. The SuperRegistry currently includes a significant amount of
In an IP-to-IP call, this lookup and routing not only avoids PSTN transport entirely, it routes calls independently of the routing tables and SS7 signaling used by traditional telcos.
Records of all phone numbers and their associated network entry points are stored in VoEX’s registry. To keep this information current, all additions and changes are regularly distributed throughout the VoEX network by its internal peering grid. Peers can thus connect through VoEX, which can transcode the industry’s widest range of signaling protocols (SIP, H.323, MGCP) and codecs.
Taken together, this combination saves VoEX’s customers money by allowing them to carry as many calls as possible, as far as possible, over IP. They save call setup times and transport costs otherwise spent on PSTN-based bridging hops between IP networks. They benefit from VoEX’s intelligent, least-cost routing and carrier-grade voice quality and reliability. When end points are TDM-based, customers save on termination fees; long PSTN-based termination legs are shortened by using the IP off-ramp (gateway) closest to the called device.
VoEX’s managed services proposition offers a no-capex entry into IP-to-IP calling. Its registry of phone numbers, continually updated with local number portability feeds and grown with additional peers, provides over one million routes for off-net interconnection, chosen with least-cost or best-quality priorities.
VoEX’s proprietary any-to-any interconnectivity technology bolts onto customers’ existing infrastructure of SS7/C7 signaling, ISDN, and such non-standard VoIP devices as Asterisk and SER servers.
In the longer term, end-to-end VoIP connectivity opens the door to applications and services that PSTN transport hops cannot support. These might include rich content, collaboration and presence-based communications applications, push-to-talk, gaming, video, and media services yet to come. The multi-channel capability of ENUM also has the potential for registering multiple endpoints and subscriber preferences under one registration record, providing a path for emails, text messages and faxes as well as voice calls to any of several devices.
In launching and growing its SuperRegistry, VoEX’s top-tier customers include Qwest, Global Crossing, VoiceOne, USA Datanet, Point One, Grande Communications, Broadwing(Level3), Merit Network, Interactive Intelligence, Talk America, Transcom, Internet2, University of Michigan, Northwestern University, and Georgetown University. By purchasing from VoEX, these customers gain the capacity to deploy VoIP, reduced operating costs, faster time-to-market and greater profitability.
VoEX is a privately held company headquartered in
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